I’ve never been a vendor at rendo but seem to have a vendor page. The avatar is one I use at the forums there…so do we all have this sort of page? Anyone know why I would have one?

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Pen

I am getting a bunch of MySQL errors there, so it looks to me like this is just a bug.

It probably starts to gather some information based on the “vendor” parameter provided via the URL, which leads to your avatar being displayed. The MySQL errors are probably resulting then from trying to fill the “potential” vendor page further (getting products etc.) and since you are not a vendor, this fails.

Would probably be better if they’d check in advance on whether you are a vendor at all and then either present a sort of “sorry, no vendor” page or display the adequate vendor page.

I’ve never been a vendor at rendo but seem to have a vendor page. The avatar is one I use at the forums there…so do we all have this sort of page? Anyone know why I would have one?

Cheers
Pen

I am getting a bunch of MySQL errors there, so it looks to me like this is just a bug.

It probably starts to gather some information based on the “vendor” parameter provided via the URL, which leads to your avatar being displayed. The MySQL errors are probably resulting then from trying to fill the “potential” vendor page further (getting products etc.) and since you are not a vendor, this fails.

Would probably be better if they’d check in advance on whether you are a vendor at all and then either present a sort of “sorry, no vendor” page or display the adequate vendor page.

All I googled was my user name if you check the vendor list at rendo I don’t show up at all. This showed up using google it was on about the fifth page of links. It wasn’t that I was looking at rendo to see if I was a vendor. Rendo wasn’t even part of the search terms…

I think, but since I don’t know exactly what software they are using to run things there, I can’t be 100% sure…

but when you set up an account there, it populates all the parts of it…so you’ve got your regular forum stuff, your ‘user’ account and basically a ‘blank’ vendor account (also a freebie account…although that may just be a ‘class’ of vendor account). And you need to set things up/activate the other parts of it as you need them

All I googled was my user name if you check the vendor list at rendo I don’t show up at all. This showed up using google it was on about the fifth page of links. It wasn’t that I was looking at rendo to see if I was a vendor. Rendo wasn’t even part of the search terms…

Google basically uses bots to fill out its search contents and tries to determine if a URL and its parameters lead to “unique pages” and if so this is a potential search result. This can be steered by web pages, so Rendo could specify (and probably does) what Google should be allowed to “crawl” for example or which URLs (and parameters) lead to the same content.

In your case Google found that specific URL and provided parameters - could be for various reasons, e.g. it could be linked somewhere on Rendo, a place you may not be able to see, but the bot perhaps could - and it led to the result page getting indexed as search result and you found it then.

I’d probably point this out at Rendo. There is/are certainly a bug/bugs when it tries to fill out your (non existant) vendor page and there may be another issue with regards to their Google bot configuration.

I think, but since I don’t know exactly what software they are using to run things there, I can’t be 100% sure…

but when you set up an account there, it populates all the parts of it…so you’ve got your regular forum stuff, your ‘user’ account and basically a ‘blank’ vendor account (also a freebie account…although that may just be a ‘class’ of vendor account). And you need to set things up/activate the other parts of it as you need them

That makes sense…I thought it might be something like that especially as it was using my avatar from the forums there.